Background

Mr. Douglas A. Alexander, also known as Doug, serves as the President of Actua Corporation (formerly, ICG Group, Inc.) since January 2009. Mr. Alexander has overall responsibility for corporate strategy at Actua Corporation and his primary focus at Actua has been to sponsor and oversee investments in several partner companies. He serves as Chairman of the Management & Technology Executive Board at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the Chief Executive Officer ... of Channel Intelligence, Inc. since February 2012. He served as Managing Director of Operations at Actua Corporation since October 2003 and served as its Managing Director. He joined Actua full time in September 1997 as a Managing Director and was instrumental in the development of Actua and many of its most important partner companies. He has had many roles at Actua including operating as the Chief Executive Officer at WiseWire Corporation/WiseWire Technologies; the Chief Executive Officer at Traffic.com, Inc.; the Chairman of BravoSolution US, Inc. (formerly Verticalnet, Inc.); and the Chief Executive Officer at Actua Europe. From January 2003 to October 2003, Mr. Alexander served as the Chief Executive Officer at Mobility Technologies Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer of ICG Europe. He co-founded Reality Online in 1989. With the advent of the Internet, Mr. Alexander transformed into the leading provider of Internet solutions to the retail brokerage industry. Over the next three years, he became a key contributor to Reuters' many Internet initiatives around the globe and a frequent speaker on the Internet and its impact on the financial services industry. Prior to co-founding Reality Online, he was a Partner at Strategic Management Group. He served as Chairman of Verticalnet Ltd. (Israel). He serves as Co-Chairman of NFTE Philadelphia, and a member of the Wharton Future of Advertising Global Advisory Board. He serves on the Boards of GovDelivery, SeaPass, mylist, Click Commerce Inc., and has been Director of Rakuten LinkShare Corporation since July 1998. He serves as Director of Investor Force, Inc. He serves as Director of Channel Intelligence, Inc. He served as an Director of ClickEquations, Inc., Arbinet Communications Inc., TurnTide Inc., ComputerJobs.com Inc., Deja.com Inc., WhiteFence, Inc., eMerge Interactive Inc., SageMaker Inc., Traffic.com, Inc., Creditrade, Orbius, Inc., Creditex, StarCite, Inc., ICG Commerce, and CommerceQuest. He has been a Director of Procurian USA Inc since 2001. He serves as Advisor of Shenandoah Studio, LLC. He serves as a Director at BOLT Solutions Inc. Mr. Alexander serves as a Member of Advisory Board of NextStage Capital, L.P. He is a Member of the President's Advisory Board for Eisenhower Fellows. He served as Member of Advisory Board at Actua Corporation. He served as a Director of Blackboard Inc. from September 1998 to December 31, 2004. He served as Director of BravoSolution US, Inc. He has been quoted in numerous publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New York Times. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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